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Title Living through the Civil Rights Movement / Charles George, book editor.
Publication Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2007.
Material description 117 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Living through the Cold War
Subjects 1. Racism - Sources. - History - 20th century - United States. 2. Politicians - Sources. - History - 20th century - United States. 3. Civil rights workers - Sources. - History - 20th century - United States. 4. African American civil rights workers - Sources. - History - 20th century. 5. Civil rights movements - Sources. - History - 20th century - United States. 6. African Americans - Sources. - Civil rights - History - 20th century. 7. Southern States - Sources. - Race relations - History - 20th century. 8. United States - Sources. - Race relations - History - 20th century.
Added entries I. George, Charles,, 1949-
ISBN 0737729198 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
Control number 2006017184
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Responding to the school integration crisis in Little Rock / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- The nation faces a moral crisis in regard to race / John F. Kennedy -- The Civil Rights Movement threatens individual and states rights / George C. Wallace -- Blacks must have the right to vote / Lyndon B. Johnson -- "I have a dream" / Dr. Martin Luther King Jr -- Blacks must do whatever is necessary to secure their rights / Malcolm X -- Blacks must develop their own community / Stokely Carmichael -- Confronting racism at Little Rock's Central High School / Daisy Bates -- Black students take a stand : sit-ins and freedom rides / Diane Nash -- Attempting to vote in Mississippi / Fannie Lou Hamer -- Marching in Birmingham's Children's Crusade / Audrey Faye Hendricks, Judy Tarver, Bernita Roberson, and Larry Russell -- Bloody Sunday : the protest march that shocked the nation / John Lewis.
Summary: The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s marked a turning point in how a person of one ethnic, religious, or social group views someone in another group. In addition to revolutionizing race relations in the United States, the Movement profoundly influenced freedom movements around the world.
Reading grade level: 10.0.
Websites Table of contents only (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006017184.html)



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